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Show U. P. PRESIDENT IS SALT M VISITOR While Here Tells of Completion Comple-tion of Cut-off Increasing Facilities to Coast. A. I, aiohlor, prcoldont of tho Union Pacific and the -Oregon Short LIno railroads, rail-roads, arrived In Salt Lako City at about noon yestorday and loft "last night for Los Angeles over tho Bait- Lako route. When seen yesterday Mr. Slohler was reveling In., tho cool canyon breeze and ald that It was mighty flno to como here after tho sweltering Heat of the middle west Ho came hero from Omaha and was accompanied by Garrit Fort, passenger traffic manager for tho roads of which Mr. Mohlor Is presldcnt- Whlla here Mr. Mold or told of the .completion of the cutoff between Topo-;l;a, Topo-;l;a, Kan., and Gibbon, Neb,, which will furnish n second route between Kansas "City and Denver and tho Pacific coasL. nearly a thousand miles of which will be double trade. Tho new lino will be used particularly In emergencies when ifor any reason the Kansas lines are tied up. The announcement cotne3 as a sequel to recent completion of -the dissolution of the Union Paclllc-Southern Pacific lines and It Is stated by officials that work now under way will practically complote the double-tracking of the main lines of the road west of Kansas City and Omaha to tho Ogden 'terminus. Tho cutoff leaven tho Kansas main line at Topelca running through Marys-vllle, Marys-vllle, Kan., and Hastings, Nob., striking the Nebraska main lino near Kearney. Another cutoff in Colorado will reduce the mileage by twenty-four miles, |